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» Christmas cheer on the comedy circuit

Victoria Nangle comes up with a cracking joke and searches out some festive cheer in this season of goodwill

Alright, so it’s December. It’s officially cold, it’s officially getting scarily close to Christmas and I’m allowed to worry now without appearing too much to be the festive worry-wort I am, and it’s officially the season of good cheer. So where is it then?
With all the best ho, ho, hos in the world, bells jingling like they’re about to get disconnected they’re so jingly, and forced smiles at the ready, as we prepare to embark upon the annual odyssey to meet up with the relatives that time forgot, good cheer there ain’t. Anxious cheer a-plenty but good don’t get started until well after lunch on Christmas Day and that satisfied feeling of ‘we’re over the hump of it’ starts to emerge. That’s not to say that Christmas isn’t fun at all, it’s just bloody exhausting with it. So why not search out some Christmas cheer of our own?
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» The prodigal stand-up

Victoria Nangle steps back on to the boards with trepidation.

I haven’t done a gig for a while. There, I’ve said it. I lost my bottle after a few scary shows and thought I’d take a breather, which is not really the best move in the world but was the one I decided to take. Really, I should’ve got back onto the horse and just gigged on through my bad patch and got better with experience. It’s what all the pros say – just keep gigging and you’ll get better. And beside it being a bad move on the front of grim determination, it actually makes you get worse if you take too big a gap. Like riding a bicycle, you never forget how to do it but if you haven’t straddled the saddle for a while your steering’s likely to be more than a little wonky. I’ve lined up an afternoon ride. I’m getting back behind those handlebars and it’s going to be on the nicest cycle path I know.
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» Making a crisis out of a comedy drama

Victoria Nangle is finding days off sick are not good for your comedy health and has some tips for scriptwriters…

Whenever I end up watching daytime TV soap Doctors it’s generally because I’ve had to see the doctor. A small irony in life. Another was added on to it, as I coughed and spluttered through my dressing gown hood, when the storyline I caught myself watching featured a stand-up comedian character who takes the gamble and goes out to do a university gig, while still infectious with the chicken pox. This is all despite the pleas of his girlfriend. Halfway through his set he saw the error of his ways and declared his troth to the aforementioned girlfriend, stepping out of his stage persona and walking off stage and out the door, arm in arm with his one true love. Ah. And then as a postscript he gets a call on his answer machine saying that there was a big agent in who loved his new persona and could he do loads more gigs. Happy ever after, right? No!
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» Christmas comedy DVDs round-up

Victoria Nangle has a look at a way to brighten up the skintest Christmas

I know, we’re all feeling broke after the glut of giggling that was the Magners Paramount Comedy Festival followed by the Brighton Comedy Fringe and really don’t want to have to think about Christmas yet. It’s cold, it’s wet, and we are most definitely past the point of an Indian summer. And yet off the back of this state of affairs, plus that big pocket-drainer that is Christmas heading towards us at full pelt, I have a suggestion. It’s time to go Christmas shopping.
Think about it. It makes sense to spread the cost and be organised, plus – and here’s the sneaky bit – there are loads of cool comedy DVDs just being released now that’ll suit all the multitudes of tastes of the family, and that you can watch first to help float you through this traditionally depressing time of year.
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